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1) Best buddies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"Best buddies look out for each other, but when one has to go to school, what's the other to do? After a bit of moping . . . and whining . . . a boy and his dog find the perfect way to stay close all day long."--book jacket.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
An HIV-positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked, the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with Down Syndrome, reveal how the assault has changed their lives as they tell of its aftermath.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
Mia likes many of the things other people like--going to the beach, the color blue, drawing. But she doesn't like when strangers stare at her because she looks different from them. Down syndrome allows Mia to see and understand the world in a way that may not make sense to others. She considers it her superpower--and instead of it making her strange, she considers herself a masterpiece. As we all are. In this sparkling picture book, Mia offers a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When he becomes stronger but slower, Terry must deal with being moved from defensive safety to offensive tackle on his football team and with the fact that his younger brother, who was born with Down's Syndrome, is becoming a faster runner.
11) How smudge came
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Cindy, a developmentally challenged women, finds a stray dog to love, and shares it with a blind man at the Hospice where she works, but is not allowed to keep it at home. She tries to retrieve it from the SPCA, but it has already been taken: by the Hospice, where she can care for it & see it everyday, along with all the patients.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
It's Kate's first time visiting her grandparents on her own at their lakeside home. She's nervous but excited at the adventure ahead. She helps her grandfather with his grocery deliveries by boat, where she meets all the neighbors, including a very grumpy old man named Walter. And she makes best friends with her grandparents' dog, Parbuckle. Her grandmother even teaches her to pilot the boat all by herself! When her grandfather takes ill suddenly,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
"Jamie is unstoppable. That's right, unstoppable. He likes to pretend he's a superhero, and with his cape and gadgets, he feels like he can face anything. When his picture is chosen to be shown for the NDSS Buddy Walk, his family travels to New York City to see it. The city is busy and loud, and Jamie is missing some of the gadgets that help him stay calm when there's too much going on around him. But he soon discovers that it isn't what he wears...
18) Willowood
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Eleven-year-old Lily has trouble leaving her best friend behind and moving to the city when her mother changes jobs, but she makes some very unlikely friends that soon become like family members.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Thirteen-year-old Cynnie has had to deal with her mother's alcoholism and stream of boyfriends all her life, but when her grandparents take custody of her brother, who has Down Syndrome, Cynnie becomes self-destructive and winds up in court-mandated Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.